The case against Watch Lume: It is weak sauce and here is why

I have always said that Lume is the least impressive part of a luxury watch, although part of the collective discussion takes it. If you want to get a feeling for how inconspicuous it is, try to explain it to a layperson and see how long you take until you inevitably describe it as a “glow-in-the-hard color”, that's exactly what it is.

It is impressive, but it is the same stuff from which the fluorescent stars, from which the ceiling of your children's bedroom is located, is impressed. And they have not impressed you since you reached puberty.

However, Lume on a clock is the knees of the bees, the dog's toilet and the dog's blocks, as the British would say, on a piece of apple pie with racetracks on a roadster and vanilla ice cream. Every collector I know goes over it.

Even our gentleman and savior Tim Mosso raves about the luminosity of every shining clock that he covers on YouTube, and ends every review with a patented Lume shot that was completely switched off with the lights. Insert Toy story Alien Gif here: ooooooooooooooooooh!

I don't understand. Everything that Lume does is a bit of light and temporarily radiates it. Big Whoop.

Admittedly, if it is fully stressed, it is incredibly fascinating. I can't tell you for my life why, but I am sure that you were there: to keep your watch at eye level, to be fixed on the dial, to sunbathe in the fluorescent afterglow, which shines back on it before you sober “What the devil I do?” Springs to the meaning and grab you out of that.

As far as I can train, Lume is at best distracting and, in the worst case, is useless. As it means a large sales argument these days, it is beyond me in every respect.

Also when it is what your cucumber tickles, why not get the full Marie -Curie treatment and a ball watch? Regardless of external light sources, the gas pipes with which they are equipped shine a hundred times hundred times brighter than conventional lume, like an anglerfish, which means that they can recognize the time in the dark, no matter how long they were in it.

I can't say the same thing about my Rolex Milgauss, whose time I could hardly tell in a cinema or at night in my car (my Mazdas watch can not keep time to shit).

I also can't take a break when I wake up in the middle of the night, no matter how hard I crooked, although my eyesight is not even half bad. I understand that it would help to put the clock down, one side upwards under a light light bulb that lights up to the Lume, but who wants to do that before going to bed every night? “I will be right there, darling as soon as I'm done to harvest light!”

Apart from the functionality, Lume is useful for a wide range of sports pieces and especially on diving boxes if it only makes sense from tradition and not the application and play a major role aesthetically. It is hard to imagine that a Panerai Radiomir or Blancpain fifty thread without them – and for good reason: Lume is an essential part of the genre and (how Moso dignity) is loyal to history.

Not so much on high-end clothing pieces. Here the addition of Lume collides with the baroque, craftsmen and classic cadence of such things, especially if they are used for excess.

The implementation of the datis sheet of a database or any longer is criminals with the stuff such as the immersion of Bluefin -Tuna in Mayo or Sriracha.

The same applies to elegant sports watches. Lume will ruin everything sounding or at least take a notch down, no matter how sparse has been sprinkled into.

A typical example: The Speedmaster “Ed White” 321. His indices are from the unfortunate “FauXtina” variant, a new substance that looks so old and is supposed to bring us back in simpler times. They know that female factory workers were encouraged to lick the tips of radium -soaked brushes, causing their jaws to collapse.

Unfortunately, I wander off. Consider Ed White again. Close your eyes for a second and replace the pathological, clumpy lume, which is about as turtle as the flaw of a turtle, with fresh white color, which corresponds to the rest of the details of the dial. Isn't that better? What you have, there is an honest, good -looking watch, clean and flawless.

I don't know anything about you, but a greenish-yellowish color scheme does not write exactly how moon ends up with me. Save it for your Hamilton Khakis and the like.

While we are on space things, here is another favorite of mine, an elegant icon that is spoiled by the same guilty: the new Breitling Navitimer cosonauts, which is now partly available in platinum. When I pay a significant premium for the metal, I expect nothing less than the right applications and indices.

But that's just me. Almost everyone else, I suspect, would rather have a watch that (under the right circumstances) shines in the dark: Ooooooooooooooooh!

George Kern and his overlords know this and are based on the masses and thus achieve their ultimate goal of moving units and earning money charges. Cha-Ching.

Be insured, should I push into the core, I put it down and asks my case: Can you please do it in my own way? I don't understand why not. John Mayer sat strictly and spoke in a unique piéce, a 5004g with lumed hands pulled out and effectively dressed Michelangelo's David in a vest with high visibility.

If Mr. JC Mayer could ask such inquiries that deviate from tradition and border the sacriliac, I should get some space for adaptation.

I know Mayer a national treasure and a serious collector with a Grammy price-crowned national treasure, but I'm not a slouch either. I write for Feder & padFor petes sake. This appearance cannot qualify me for a meeting with Patek, but a meeting with Breitling? Feasible.

George, if you read this, let us roll the ball on my piece: a platinum cosmonaut with solid platinum and indices instead of the squidgy luminescent.

And whatever you do, please don't worry about me. If I have to read the time while my spaceship is in the shadow of the earth, I will step on the coupling light.

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